with Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and LIZ RIGBEY

7.10 Today's Papers

A weekly review of the agricultural scene BBC Birmingham

with John Harriot

Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.

8.10 Today's Papers

Presented by Tony Lewis
The Australian Rugby Union tourists play their second tour match against the South and South West at Exeter, while Great Britain's Men's Hockey Team, still basking in the glory of an Olympic bronze medal, compete against
Holland, Ireland and Russia. Plus news, issues and personalities making the headlines.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON

Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING , PATRICK STODDART and ROBIN DEWHURST taking a practical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD Including at 9.0 News

with Ann Leslie
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

Masters and Servants
With the growing campaigns for freedom of information and concern over Government secrecy, Hugo Young analyses the implications for civil servants.
Producer JIM GRAY

with Margaret Howard Stereo

Producer ZAREER MASANI

Presented by Louise Botting
The 1983/84 Unit Trust Investor of the Year
This year's presentation coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Unit Trust Association and takes place at a special UTA Conference at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel.
It's been a difficult year for investors as growth on stockmarkets round the world faltered but as usual competition has been intense, with the result in doubt right up to the last minute.
The winner receives a cut glass piggy bank specially created for the event and inscribed by Wedgwood Glass, and leading unit trust managers will be on hand to discuss the formula for successful investment.
(Repeated: Monday 10.0 am)

Phrase detectives
Michael Heath , Sue Limb Jancis Robinson and The Rev Roger Royle on the track of quotations new and old..... Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOANIE BLALKIE
(Repeated: Mm 6.30 pm) Stereo

with Sheila McKechnie Michael Winner
Professor Ted Wragg Dan Cherrington

Gear Change by DAVE SIMPSON
Chris want's to be a car mechanic,' not an unusual ambition, except that Chris happens to be a girl. However, she finds her ambition not easy to achieve.
Directed by KAY PATRICK
BBC Manchester Stereo

Leonard Pearcey presents the introductory programme of a four week series. Does wordless music make you laugh? If it does Leonard tries to explain why, looking into various types of humour. Written by LEONARD PEARCEY Researcher TIM JOSS
Producer PAUL SPENCER Stereo
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with Alec McCowen
The last of three programmes i compiled and written by BARRY CARMAN
Narrator John Rowe
In this instalment from
Joseph McPherson 's letters, he
'. describes this final phase of his astonishing career and, as well, the serene retirement which followed, ending with his death on 22 January 1946. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK Stereo

Presented by Barry Norman A weekly look at the new technology and its impact. Producer TREVOR TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.0pm VHFIFM) Chipline: London [number removed]Liverpool [number removed]Bristol [number removed]
Birmingham [number removed]. Stereo

The first of five programmes Songs of the Cradle
A fundamental expression of the growing relationship between parent and child is the song designed to soothe babies to sleep - the lullaby. Kevin Crossley-Holland examines the way in which these ritualistic songs encompass a wide range of feelings, from tenderness to hostility, from frustration to joy, with examples from different countries.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE

Eve Turner of BBC Radio
Cambridgeshire was given a special invitation to Bourn Hall in Cambridge, a place famous for its pioneering work on test-tube babies.
She meets Louise Brown (the world's first baby produced by this method), and talks to scientists Patrick Steptoe ,
Robert Edwards , patients and nurses about the problems associated with infertility.
Producers CLIFF KlTNEY, EVE TURNER (First broadcast on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire)

Stereo

With PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up

Music by FASCINATING AIDA
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

with Richard Baker
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo

Lord Byron's Last Command by ROWLAND MORGAN
Did Byron die in Missalonghi or is he alive and well and plotting revolution in England? Byron's widow,
Annabella, and her lover. Sir John Hobhouse. set out to establish the truth....
Directed by GERRY JONES
(Repeated: Monday 3.0 pm) Stereo

Lord Palmerston, born 200 years ago, was one of Britain's most controversial Foreign
Secretaries, as well as being known as 'Lord Cupid'.
Richard Mullen examines what made him
'Palmerstonian': why he was loved by ordinary people for his stout defence of British interests, unpopular with Queen Victoria for his high-handedness and often loathed by foreigners for his bullying chauvinism.
Narrator JOHN ROWE Cast includes
NICHOLAS COURTNEY ,
WILLIAM EEDLE , NIGEL GRAHAM ,
MAGGIE MCCARTHY , ELLEN MCINTOSH Producer ANNE WINDER

Sun of my soul (BBC HB 424); Evening Hymn (Purcell) (Church Anthem Book);
Matthew 22, vv 34-46; Now the day is over (BBC HB 419) Stereo

Nick Page considers the lives and achievements of 12 people. 7: William Tyndale - an obedient Christian
Research RACHEL VINEY Producer DAVID COOMES

presents Afternoon Concert with the one by Bach that goes, de-dum-de-dum-de-daa; Mendelssohn's good one, you know, that goes la-la-lumph; and Haydn's oh, uh, you know, well you will when you hear it, starring
Christopher Barrie (clarinet) Nick Maloney (violin) and Nick Wilton (citroen)
Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR. Music by PETER BREWIS Producer ALAN NIXON
Stereo

followed by an interlude